Wink Applebee and the Medicinal 9
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Wink Applebee.
What a silly name, no?
Well, it should be. It was thought up by very silly people...Us that's who.
And I ,the omnipotent narrator, will tell you how it all came about.
Adam had been recording with two lads formerly of The Branches, Marshall & Steve. They had a song called Julius Caesar's New Electric Las Vegas. Sometime, around recording that song, a certain gameshow host named Wink (Martindale) was mentioned. Adam kept that name under his hat for future reference.
Now, Adam also liked the surname of Applebee. He had developed a character named Applebee who was an underling in a big corporation, and when Marcus, James, and Adam had finished recording their first EP album (Goulag), the question came up. "What should our band be called?". The group came to a consensus that the name should have originate from an amusing acronym. The acronym desided upon was PMS, and eventually the letters stood to mean Picasso's Modernistic Symphonic. The original cover art for this incarnation still exists complete with Margaret Thatcher's head on a bee's body. It wasn't until the recording of the second EP (The Fourth Album (No.2)) that Marcus voiced dislike of the name. The group desided the name should take the format of "someone" and the "something. Adam came up with Wink Applebee. Marcus added The Medicinal Nine (subconciously taking inspiration from Tom Scharpling's band The Medicinal Marijuana). The name represents multiple concepts. First Dada because there are only three of up, and none of us go by Wink Applebee. Second both Absurdism and a harkening back to bands of the 60's because the name was needlessly long The first two EPs were combined and the first Album was born.
So that's how the name came about.
The band came about a bit differently.
To back track a little Adam met Marcus from school by way of Caleb, Marshall's brother. Adam, was in a band at the time by the name of Zygomycota (a name of Adam's creation) with his friend Ryan. Now, up until this point Adam was in the habbit of recording Zygomycota jams on audio cassettes, then re-recording the best takes onto one tape. Marcus was brought into the band to play bass. After recording a jam at Ryan's house on tape. Marcus said he could record the tape onto his computer, and clean it up (Somewhat). The second Zygomycota album was recorded in a similar fashion. It wasn't until Goulag that that the technique was introduced of recording directly onto the computer. The result was better quality recordings. Releasable recordings.
One day, Adam went over to Marcus's to record. He called up Ryan, but Ryan was not to be found. Marcus said, "What the hell, we'll just record something ourselves." Marcus picked up his electric guitar the resulting recording was called Machinations by The Bag Ladies. This started the trend of different line up = different band name.
There was this one particular guitar playing man that Adam had met playing hacky-sac at school. His name was James, and he was a pretty cool guy. He and Adam had some pretty inneresting conversations during those lunches. Adam said to James, "We should jam together sometime." So they all did; James, Adam, and Marcus. And from the initial jam came Goulag.
And they've been together ever since.
Core Members
Rev. James Denzer - Lead Guitar, Misc.
Rev. Marcus Burkhard - Bass, Rhythm Guitar, Occasional Vocals, Misc.
Adam Werven - Drums, Occasional Vocals, Misc.
Honorary Members
Caleb Ricks - Guitar
Ryan Gilespie - Guitar, Accordian, Bass
Discography
- Goulag & The Fourth Album (No.2) - (2005)
- Comprachicos - (2005 - 2006)
- Damage - (2006)
- Heavy - (2006)
- Go West Young Man - (2006)
- Manifesto - (2006)
- Fodder - (2006)
- Janibeg - (2006)
- President Now More Than Ever - (2006)
- No Pressure (But This Is Our Tenth Album) A Musical Exploration of Craig T. Nelson's Lacerating Word Play As Evidenced by His Novel Entitled "The Time Machine" in which he describes the state of events in a time previous to the one in which he wrote the book, Oh wait H.G. Wells wrote "The Time Machine", and there's not really any word play in the book per say I suppose that makes my point moot,Or as this album can be more conveniently called for those to lazy to say this whole title "How do you like them apples, Fiona?" - (2006)
- Silver Ballet - (2006)
- Canoe - (2006)
Audio
- Goulag & The Fourth Album (No.2)
- Comprachicos
- Damage
- Heavy
- Go West Young Man
- Manifesto
- Fodder
- Janibeg
- President Now More Than Ever
- No Pressure (But This Is Our Tenth Album) A Musical Exploration of Craig T. Nelson's Lacerating Word Play As Evidenced by His Novel Entitled "The Time Machine" in which he describes the state of events in a time previous to the one in which he wrote the book, Oh wait H.G. Wells wrote "The Time Machine", and there's not really any word play in the book per say I suppose that makes my point moot,Or as this album can be more conveniently called for those to lazy to say this whole title "How do you like them apples, Fiona?"
- Silver Ballet
- Canoe
